Random Pokemon Facts Discussion

Here's some random info about Farfetch'd. Farfetch'd is based off of a Japanese saying that means something like “a duck comes along carrying a leek on its back.” It's supposed to illustrate something convenient because duck is served with leeks, but can also refer to something that's very unlikely to happen, or is "farfetched." Incidentally, the Pokédex in the anime back in season 1 commented on how tasty Farfetch'd are served with leeks and how they had nearly been hunted to extinction, while the only Farfetch'd you could get in gen 1 was through trade and gen 2 dex entries talk about dwindling numbers and how breeders are trying to save the species.

People have been eating Pokémon for a long time. And apparently they're very tasty.

If I get a Farfetch'd any time soon, I'm naming it Tasty.

 

Flaaffy stores so much electricity in its wool that it fell out. This is why it has less wool than mareep.

 

guess you probably know this one but meh
ekans is snake backwards and arbok is kobra backwards
anyways
thoughts on gamefreak/nintendo messing up butterfree/venomoth's evolutions by interchanging them in the last second?


notice the similarity? :^)

on a side note,genesect might be a genetically modified kabutops

 

Those are more theories than facts, but on the Butterfree/Venomoth thing, there's a species of caterpillar that looks just like a Caterpie.

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And the cocoon looks like this:

Spoiler: Looks like a Metapod

But then the butterfly looks like...?

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It's a Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly. While the black and white marks look kiiiind of like Butterfree, it's wings are very dark and triangular shape and Butterfree has never had the iconic points on the end of its wings that give it the "swallowtail" name. Venomoth on the other hand...



...has had swallowtails since its very first sprite. In it's first sprite, it has white marks on its wings kind of like the Swallowtail butterfly too.

Edit: out of curiosity I looked up some pictures of moths and found this:

Spoiler: Police Car/Green Lattice moth

The orange marks on it even look like a Butterfree's eyes. Then the description on the site where I found this says, "This black and white moth is unusual in that it is active during the day. It is very conspicuous, especially with the two orange hair tufts just behind its head. It is also a poor flyer. These features may seem to make it very vulnerable to predators but it has defensive chemicals in its body that deter would-be attackers."

Sounds like a poison-type moth to me. I've always been skeptical of this theory, but this seems pretty conclusive. I don't think Butterfree evolves from Venonat. I think it was always supposed to be Venomoth, but it does seems like the sprites, at least, were switched.

 

great analysis really,kudos for that digging
about damn time that nintendo admit they did this and accept the fans theories were right ffs

 

Lickilicky's Ultra Sun Pokédex entry: "A contest is under way to determine which one can stick its tongue out the farthest. The current record is...more than 82 feet."

That is almost twice as long as a WAILORD.

 

Wow, so apparently every single Mega Pokémon is in incredible pain. That's fun. Here's Mega Aerodactyl in Moon: "When it Mega Evolves, it becomes more vicious than ever before. Some say that's because its excess of power is causing it pain.". Similarly, in Ultra Sun, non-mega Aerodactyl's dex entry is "Restored from DNA found in amber, this Pokémon exhibited ferocity that was greater than expected. Some casualties resulted." which means Pokémon can and sometimes do kill people.

Aside from that, I like how Cosmog and Cosmoem have the minimum and maximum possible weights displayable in metric. Cosmog is 0.1kg and Cosmoem is 999.9kg, which I take to mean "as weightless as a small cloud of space dust" and "as incredibly heavy as space dust collapsing into a star". I'll do some quick math here: Cosmoem is 4 inches tall, about 10 cm. 1000 cubic centimeters, and a mass of 1,000 kg, this thing is 1000 grams per cubic centimeter. For comparison, pure iron is about 8g per cubic centimeter, which means Cosmoem is about 125 times as heavy as iron. Okay, Cosmoem isn't a perfect cube, so I'll go as low as saying 50 times as heavy as iron. That's still really, really heavy.

 

So who likes math and pixel measurements? I do!

Spoiler: TL;DR tag for people who don't like math and pixel measurements.

Cosmoem is a sphere with 6 ellipsoids. Assuming its height is measure from the tips of the vertical ellipsoids, each of the ovals is around 10.16x11.39x0.92cm. The volume of an ellipsoid is 4/3 x pi x r(1) x r(2) x r(3) where each "r" is one of the three radii. Plugging in our numbers gives us a volume of around 445.97cm^3. Multiplying that by 6, for the area of each oval, gives us an area of 2699.82cm^2, though this is probably a little of an overestimation since a couple of the ellipsoids intersect.

Speaking of intersecting, we need to find the volume of the areas where the sphere intersects with the ellipsoids and subtract from that total we just found. I’ll use the formula to find the area of an ellipsoid again, knowing this will probably under-estimate, but hopefully the over-estimation from the two intersecting ellipsoids helps to cancel that out. Once again assuming the height is measured from the tips of the ovals, we can estimate the diameter of the sphere as being around 6.08cm, so the ellipsoid’s dimensions we’re trying to find the volume for now are 6.08x6.08x0.92cm, with the 0.92 being the thickness of our other ellipsoids. Doing the calculations again, we get a volume of 151.75cm^3. Multiplying that by 6, once for each ellipsoid, gives us 910.50cm^3. The total volume of the ellipsoids subtracted by that number gives us 1789.32cm^3 as the final area of all of the ellipsoids.

Now for the sphere itself, which is comparably very easy. Already knowing that its radius is about 3.04cm, we can use the formula 4/3 x pi x r^3 to find the volume of the sphere, which ends up being 117.68cm^3. Adding that to the ellipsoids gives us 1907cm^3 exactly as the total volume of a Cosmoem.

With a weight of 999.90kg, and the formula D=M/V, we get 0.52kg/cm^3 as Cosmoem’s density. Just so everything is in the same units, the density of iron is 0.0079kg/cm^3. That means that Cosmoem is around 65.82x heavier than iron.

Edit: curse this thread for making me do math out of curiosity!

 

That's why I exercise self-restraint, a little bit of math can be satisfying, but too much makes me hurt myself. Thanks for taking that hit for me!

But it just occurred to me that since Cosmoem's weight in metric is 999.9 kg, it probably isn't actually exactly that, but some undetermined amount higher (kind of like how it's 4 inches tall in imperial, but 0.1 m (100 cm, about 39 inches) tall in metric? Likely a constraint of the display system). Like if you were to get a high score on an arcade machine and it displays that you got 9,999,999 even though you really got 10,020,789, it just got rounded down to fewer digits for display purposes. What if Cosmoem is really 1500 kg? or 4000 kg? or 50000 kg? I think if we were to question its designer at Gamefreak, we would probably be told that Cosmoem has the same density as cosmic material just before its own immense gravity and inward pressure became enough to combust it into a star. I'm not an astrophysicist, but I know that it's incredibly dense.

TL;DR, I'm just trying to say that rather than being 66 times as heavy as iron, Cosmoem is at least that heavy. Small enough to fit in your pocket, but at least as heavy as two happily married Snorlaxes and their daughter and son all together.

 

I did actually try converting its weight in pounds to kilograms and it ended up being 999.899kg, which rounds up to 999.9kg. So it actually weighs slightly less than that. It might just weigh that much because that's the maximum, but 2204.4lbs sounds pretty precise.

 

Wow this one got really buried but I remembered something interesting earlier. Shinx could technically have been considered a fakemon at one point. It was originally "revealed" as a new Pokémon by a magazine as an April fool's joke. Nintendo liked the design, bought it from the magazine, tweaked it a bit, and released it as an official Pokémon in Gen 4.

 

Why are Pokémon so light? You'd think the Steel and Rock-types would be a lot heavier, but even things like Celesteela and Metagross barely weight over a single ton. X_X

 

A truly, truly random fact:

Pokédex entries for Solgalaleo and Lunala in their opposite games (Sol in Moon, Lun in Sun) refer to Solgalaleo as male, and Lunala as female, while both are actually genderless.

and an even more unimportant note i'm the reason that infos on the Pokémon wiki